While millions more slip into poverty, techno-elites and billionaires are profiting off the pandemic.
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Clear Conquered U.S. Airports. Now It Wants to Own Your Entire Digital Identity.
h/t OneZero @ozm
“…the company used the pandemic to pivot and help expand its business model beyond getting fliers to the front of the line. Clear’s vision for its fingerprint, iris-scanning, and facial recognition business goes beyond kiosks in airports or sports areas — it wants to be a holistic identity verification platform, covering more intimate moments in our everyday lives.” Read more.
When AI hurts people, who is held responsible?
h/t Paresh Kathrani @PKathrani
“If AI is in control and something goes wrong, when is it the attending human’s fault and when can you blame the AI? That’s the focus of a recent paper published in the Boston University Law Review.” Read more.
Shrinking the ‘data desert’: Inside efforts to make AI systems more inclusive of people with disabilities
h/t Matthew Sekol @MatthewSekol
“To begin to shrink that data desert, Microsoft researchers have been working for the past year and a half to investigate and suggest ways to make AI systems more inclusive of people with disabilities.” Read more.
‘Machines set loose to slaughter’: the dangerous rise of military AI
h/t Alan Winfield @alan_winfield
“Autonomous machines capable of deadly force are increasingly prevalent in modern warfare, despite numerous ethical concerns. Is there anything we can do to halt the advance of the killer robots?” Read more.
French Billionaires Seize Pandemic Opportunities
h/t Bloomberg Opinion @bopinion
“There are new Darwinist divides in the corporate world exposing a kind of gilded inequality at the top of society. Soaring tech businesses can shrug off social distancing while old-school brick-and-mortar firms can’t.” Read more.
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